History WesternAnimation / AlienatorsEvolutionContinues

* FamilyFriendlyFirearms: While missiles and similar munitions looked and acted normal and an attack helicopter was at one point shown firing what appeared to be mundane machine guns, in the last few episodes the military was shown using [[EnergyWeapon Frickin' Laser Beams]] that are [[AsLethalAsItNeedsToBe As Lethal As They Need To Be]]. The heroes themselves are instead armed with AbnormalAmmo in the form of selenium mixes -- Harry uses a rifle called a "Devolver" (which fires a mix of selenium, fire extinguisher gas and a green "stasis ray", the same ray device used to create Gassy, to "reverse" the Genus' creatures evolution), Ira tends to throw grenades or even ''petri dishes'' with the mix, and Wayne can use the water cannon on the firetruck. Lucy instead carries a quarterstaff (intended by Wayne to be a nunchuck-style attachment for his fireaxe) and a discus that can expand into a shield.

* FamilyFriendlyFirearms: While missiles and similar munitions looked and acted normal and an attack helicopter was at one point shown firing what appeared to be mundane machine guns, in the last few episodes the military was shown using [[EnergyWeapon Frickin' Laser Beams]] that are [[AsLethalAsItNeedsToBe As Lethal As They Need To Be]]. The heroes themselves are instead armed with AbnormalAmmo in the form of selenium mixes -- Harry uses a rifle called a "Devolver" (which fires a mix of selenium, fire extinguisher gas and a green "stasis ray", the same ray device used to create Gassy, to "reverse" the Genus' creatures evolution), Ira tends to throw grenades or even ''petri dishes'' with the mix, and Wayne can use the water cannon on the firetruck. Lucy instead carries a quarterstaff that can expand into a shield weapon (intended by Wayne to be a nunchuck-style attachment for his fireaxe).

* FamilyFriendlyFirearms: While missiles and similar munitions looked and acted normal and an attack helicopter was at one point shown firing what appeared to be mundane machine guns, in the last few episodes the military was shown using [[EnergyWeapon Frickin' Laser Beams]] that are [[AsLethalAsItNeedsToBe As Lethal As They Need To Be]]. The heroes themselves are instead armed with AbnormalAmmo in the form of selenium mixes -- Harry uses a rifle called a "Devolver" (which fires a mix of selenium, fire extinguisher gas and a green "statis ray", the same ray device used to create Gassy, to "reverse" the Genus' creatures evolution), Ira tends to throw grenades or even ''petri dishes'' with the mix, and Wayne can use the water cannon on the firetruck. Lucy instead carries a quarterstaff that can expand into a shield weapon (intended by Wayne to be a nunchuck-style attachment for his fireaxe).

* FamilyFriendlyFirearms: While missiles and similar munitions looked and acted normal and an attack helicopter was at one point shown firing what appeared to be mundane machine guns, in the last few episodes the military was shown using [[EnergyWeapon Frickin' Laser Beams]] that are [[AsLethalAsItNeedsToBe As Lethal As They Need To Be]].

* SpiritualSuccessor (no pun intended): To ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters''. Will Meugniot even worked on both shows!). Also ''WesternAnimation/GodzillaTheSeries'' with similarly alien-looking monster designs and focus on a special anti-monster squad as the main protagonists.

''Alienators: Evolution Continues'' (a.k.a. ''Evolution: The Animated Series'' for British audiences) was an animated series that ran from 2001 to 2002 on Creator/FoxKids, based on the 2001 movie ''Film/{{Evolution}}''. The story picks up after the events of the film, following the continuing adventures of Ira Kane, Harry Block, and Wayne Grey, and also introduces a fourth hero in the form of a Blue Beret soldier named Lt. Lucy Mai and a TeamPet named Gassie, as well as [[BigBad SCOPES]], leader of an army of StarfishAliens called the Genus.

* BalefulPolymorph: Wayne's infection with the Genus DNA allows him to gain random mutations, some helpful, others not so much.

* ActionGirl: Lieutenant Lucy Mai, which isn't at all surprising given that she's a Blue Beret.

* SpiritualSuccessor (no pun intended): To ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'' ([[WesternAnimation/XMen Will]] [[WesternAnimation/{{Exosquad}} Meugniot]] even worked on both shows!). Also ''WesternAnimation/GodzillaTheSeries'' with similarly alien-looking monster designs and focus on a special anti-monster squad as the main protagonists.

* {{Tomboy}}: Lt. Lucy Mai.

* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: Scopes is constantly going on about how the Genus are a perfectly harmonious super organism, and at one point makes a beeline for Ira's parents while yelling, "You have wiped out my family, now I shall wipe out yours!" after a batch of fellow Genus are taken out in "Ira Knows Best." Considering Scopes is kind of the HiveQueen, this is also a potentially literal case of AFatherToHisMen.

* RealityEnsues: At the end of the film, Wayne was dubbed an honorary fireman by the governor, but in the three-part pilot episode Wayne claims that he is still a "fireman in-training." Just because you're an "honorary" fireman doesn't mean your training's finished.

* DefrostingIceQueen: If you thought Allison Reed was a little chilly in the film, Mai takes it UpToEleven. Despite this, Ira still seems to be all over her. General Woodman is a potential male example, being a JerkAss ObstructiveBureaucrat who slowly turns into a JerkWithAHeartOfGold.

* GeneticMemory: The Genus has this as part of a HiveMind basis with SCOPES acting as a sort of HiveQueen.

* SpiritualSuccessor (no pun intended): To ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'' ([[WesternAnimation/XMen Will]] [[WesternAnimation/{{Exosquad}} Meugniot]] even worked on both shows!).

** Selenium from shampoo from the orihinal film, though the aliens develop a resistance to it as time goes on.

* ExactWords: In one episode Harry and Ira are in a military jail with Lucy as the guard. General Woodman orders her to not let "those clowns" out. Since Harry and Ira are not "clowns" she lets them out after trolling them for a minute.

* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: In "Year of the Genus", Lt.'s uncle in Hong Kong tells of a prophecy of a dragon arising to destroy the city on the coming of the new year. True enough, a Genus monster mutates on the strike of midnight when it's activated by the firecrackers: and it flies, breathes fire, and for all intents and purposes IS a dragon, though [[NeverSayTheZWord Ira refuses to call it as such.]] In the end, it's revealed that the supersitious-sounding uncle is actually a ''biochemistry professor at Hong Kong University'', further blurring this trope.

* AdmiringTheAbomination: Ira has a really bad habit of doing this.

** Genus are often shown reproducing by regurgitating evolved offspring, referencing the "dragon-bird" creature that orally gave birth to an oxygen-tolerant offspring before dying of asphyxation in Earth's atmosphere.

* CaptainErsatz: The Genus are essentially very similar to the [[VideoGame/StarCraft Zerg]], with a purple wormlike "larval" form that can mutate into a wide array of different forms, function with a HiveMind and GeneticMemory, and are spawned from "pods" which function similarly to a Zerg Hatchery.

** Wayne isn't just a fireman in-training now - for some reason he's an engineering genius who soups up their fire engine on a daily basis, even though by his own admission in the film his knowledge of science extended to doing some chemistry in high school.

* FamilyFriendlyFirearms: While missiles and similar munitions looked and acted normal and an attack helicopter was at one point shown firing what appeared to be mundane machine guns, in the last few episodes the military was shown using FrickinLaserBeams that are [[AsLethalAsItNeedsToBe As Lethal As They Need To Be]].